Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

gigfinder.com

GIGFINDER.COM - Post and Find Gigs! - Place to post & find gigs for musicians, bands, djs and entertainers!

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

248 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gigfinder.com page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gigfinder.com performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gigfinder.com

45 ms

www.gigfinder.com

1215 ms

gtm.js

68 ms

common-982.min.css

18 ms

wide-sidebar.min.css

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Gigfinder.com, 62% (65 requests) were made to Storage.ning.com and 20% (21 requests) were made to Static.ning.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Gigfinder.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 247.4 kB (34%)

Content Size

727.6 kB

After Optimization

480.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Gigfinder.com main page is 727.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 555.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 91.0 kB

  • Original 106.8 kB
  • After minification 94.6 kB
  • After compression 15.8 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.2 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 91.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 552 B

  • Original 23.1 kB
  • After minification 22.6 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. GIGFINDER images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 155.0 kB

  • Original 555.8 kB
  • After minification 555.8 kB
  • After compression 400.7 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 155.0 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 800 B

  • Original 42.0 kB
  • After minification 42.0 kB
  • After compression 41.2 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Gigfinder.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (23%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

79

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GIGFINDER. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gigfinder.com accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Best Practices

gigfinder.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

gigfinder.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gigfinder.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Gigfinder.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of GIGFINDER. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: